Lesson/Project Description
In this lesson, students explored found materials and discovered important art concepts such as repetition, pattern, and overlap. Students used these materials and techniques to decorate the front of their newly-printed T-shirts.
Essential Understandings
Key Concepts
Process, Creation, Technology, Style, Expressions, Influence
Skills
Repetition, Overlap, Stamping, Pattern
Art Focus
Using found objects to create a composition around pattern and repetition
Literary Focus
New Vocab: Graphic T-Shirt, Heat-Press, Style, Digital Transfer, Printshop,
Literacy will be integrated with: discussion about t-shirt print shop & clothing expression, written discovery for the discovery board.
Documentation
After last classes field trip, the students had seen the technical and professional side of where clothes come from and how they are decorated with different art. So, for this lesson, the students were given the chance to be the clothing designers. Using different found objects, and newly learned printing techniques, the students combined different brushed, found items, and techniques to fill the front of their T-Shirts (which were printed at the same shop they took a field trip to) with their own art!
The prompt for this lesson required students to use found objects, stamping techniques, among others, to create some sort of pattern on their T-Shirts. Before working on their shirts, the students were presented different examples of patterns and found object art provided by the teachers. Some of the students desired to make crazy patterns and use specific color schemes in their shirts, while others decided to make more representational patterns and/or use every color in their palette. These different patterns can be observed in the different forms of documentation below.
In this lesson, students explored found materials and discovered important art concepts such as repetition, pattern, and overlap. Students used these materials and techniques to decorate the front of their newly-printed T-shirts.
Essential Understandings
- Artists use artistic process and technology to create clothing that is influenced by, and expressed in, different styles
- I can use art techniques to make clothes that are influenced by my style
- After the field trip, SWBAT explain the process of creating creating clothing at a printshop step by step (Blooms: Understanding, Standard: Comprehend, GLE: The identification of characteristics and expressive features in works of art and design help to determine artistic intent and purpose, Art Learning: Materials/Techniques, Literacy)
- I can explain how clothes are made in a printshop
- Using their sketchbooks, SWBAT use stamping, pattern, found object, and color repetition to formulate ideas for their composition with purpose (Blooms: Creating, Standard: Create, GLE: Use familiar symbols and basic media to identify and demonstrate characteristics and expressive ideas of art and design, Art Learning: Conceptual/Ideation/Personal Grounding, Literacy)
- I can use my sketchbook to explore new art techniques such as, stamping, pattern, found object, and color repetition
- After ideation, SWBAT use stamping, pattern, found object, and color to create a composition on the front of their t-shirt with confidence (Blooms: Creating, Standard: Create, GLE: Use familiar symbols and basic media to identify and demonstrate characteristics and expressive ideas of art and design, Art Learning: Expressive Features and Characteristics of Art)
- I can create a design on the front of my shirt using techniques I learned in class
- After finishing their shirts, SWBAT discuss how they created their t-shirts in detail (Blooms: Evaluating, Standard: Reflect, GLE: Artists, viewers, and patrons use the language of art to respond to their own art and the art of others, Art Learning: critical reflection/aesthetics/transfer, Literacy)
- I can talk about the way I made my shirt
Key Concepts
Process, Creation, Technology, Style, Expressions, Influence
Skills
Repetition, Overlap, Stamping, Pattern
Art Focus
Using found objects to create a composition around pattern and repetition
Literary Focus
New Vocab: Graphic T-Shirt, Heat-Press, Style, Digital Transfer, Printshop,
Literacy will be integrated with: discussion about t-shirt print shop & clothing expression, written discovery for the discovery board.
Documentation
After last classes field trip, the students had seen the technical and professional side of where clothes come from and how they are decorated with different art. So, for this lesson, the students were given the chance to be the clothing designers. Using different found objects, and newly learned printing techniques, the students combined different brushed, found items, and techniques to fill the front of their T-Shirts (which were printed at the same shop they took a field trip to) with their own art!
The prompt for this lesson required students to use found objects, stamping techniques, among others, to create some sort of pattern on their T-Shirts. Before working on their shirts, the students were presented different examples of patterns and found object art provided by the teachers. Some of the students desired to make crazy patterns and use specific color schemes in their shirts, while others decided to make more representational patterns and/or use every color in their palette. These different patterns can be observed in the different forms of documentation below.
In the video above you can here this specific student explain how he chose his specific color scheme; He chose red because it is his "favorite color," as he stated. And he chose yellow, "because it is a light color" and he felt they went well together.
The video below demonstrates how this specific students used a combination of found materials to print red and blue circular elements, as well as using brush techniques to fill a pattern on the front of his shirt.
In the background you can hear a student discussing his interest in the color black as well. A lot of the students were very excited to use black T-Shirts for this project because they explained, "it makes the colors look cooler and brighter" and that "black T-Shirts look cool so it will make my design look even cooler."
The video below demonstrates how this specific students used a combination of found materials to print red and blue circular elements, as well as using brush techniques to fill a pattern on the front of his shirt.
In the background you can hear a student discussing his interest in the color black as well. A lot of the students were very excited to use black T-Shirts for this project because they explained, "it makes the colors look cooler and brighter" and that "black T-Shirts look cool so it will make my design look even cooler."